On Friday, the White House warned that federal spending cuts could force the US meat industry to shut down for two weeks or longer.

Spending cuts set to take effect on March 1 may lead to the two week furlough of every US meat and poultry inspector. Without inspectors, the industry would be shut down.

Meatpackers and processors are not allowed to ship beef, pork, lamb and poultry without an Agricultural Department inspection seal.

They also warned that the cuts could lead to effects on everyday life, while meatpackers said it would likely devastate the industry.

The "fiscal cliff" has remained unresolved, and has been delayed until March 1. With both sides disagreeing on it, many wonder if they will be able to set their differences aside and come together on a plan.

If they're unable to come to an agreement, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service will have to furlough its employees. This would lead to the meat industry losing close to $10 billion in production.

The BS these people come up with to scare the public is amazing! We don’t worry about this crap here in Western Arkansas. There is plenty of Venison, Bear, Wild Pig and road kill to go around and don’t need no damn high paid meat inspectors.

gosh it seems that with these inspectors, we had about 4 - 5 ecolia break outs from meat this past year, and who can forget the pink slime they were feeding the school kids, plus in our super markets.... maybe be better off just letting the companies take over..

About half of the automatic spending cuts are against civilian, non-military programs. There’s propaganda from all political sides on the issue, but nonpolitical, non-spending, non-global, truly private sector folks are laughing at it.

Yeah, yeah, we know. Government and its favored, government-linked business constituents will never cut spending on federal funding for local regulators, manhaters or weirdos. They’ll go on strike to allow their foreign communist conspirators to nuke us, starve us, etc.

They’ll spy on us, shoot us, read our minds, and so on. LOL! They tell us daily that it’s the end of the world. No economic activity means no revenues for them. They will be poor. The fascists/commies can kiss America’s feet after the bond market failures, repudiations, austerity measures, etc.

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posted on 02/11/2013 8:40:58 AM PST
by familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)

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